a long time ago in a county far far away...
i was listening to some older music today...
teetering on the edge of disco and still rooted in my red neck ways...
it made me realize that i had fallen backwards and incomplete to y home in the 70's...
i remember the big radio station at the time was WXKE rock 103.9...
the wood paneling of my room...
it was dominated by my old Fender Jassmaster bass, its face was covered in a chrome faceplate...
i could smell the house...
it smelled old but well used...
it smelled of cigarettes and fresh cut grass and spring rain...
the one window in my room led to a small roof...
in the summer i would set and look out o the downtown area of my hometown...
in winter i would pose my Star Wars toys in the snow and take pictures of them...
as the sun went down i would spin my Kiss records and listen to the sounds of my family busying themselves with their petty affairs...
it was the best of times...
it was the worst of times...
people say that the 80's was the best time of life...
i hadn't yet shed my innocence in 1976...
that was truly the best decade ever...
the almonds and the doobies, nazereth and don mcclain...
star trek reruns and battlestar galactica...
space 1999 and soft, home made quilts that kept me warm on chill nights...
visits from my grandmother, aunts and uncles...
that strange purple wall paper with gold embossed flowers in the dining room...
and all the time the world to simply be...
time is closing in now...
time to remember what life was like before the trials and tribulations of puberty...
time before responsibility, marriage and the end of all things...
i no longer drink however i still like pina colada's and getting caught in the rain...
I wasn never into yoga cause i had half a brain...
I miss making love at midnight on the beach with my mate...
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